Swing, sexual vertigo and power games – Liberation

Every week in « The 400 culs »Agnès Giard, anthropologist attached to the University of Paris Nanterre, specialist in Japan, passes contemporary speeches and sexual practices in a skeptical and distanced analysis, nourished by the latest research in the human and social sciences.

It is associated with the playgrounds but the swing is defined above all as a tool of ritual power: « Its mythological origins go back to the moment when the goddess Iris was swaying in the penis of her late husband in the winged form of a Milan. » From the first lines ofA stunning story of the swing (Éditions de la Sorbonne, published on January 30), Javier Moscoso, historian of the philosophy of science, lays the foundations of his theory… also reversing. As he defends it, the swing is not a free fun: designed to rotate bodies, it facilitates these inversion relationships which allow, in particular, women to become man « rollers ». The demonstration of Moscoso, rich in anecdotes, erudite, abundant, covers all regions of the world, revealing the extraordinary similarity of magic games and sometimes cruel tortures that the swing promotes. In the last chapter, « sexuality », he